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Emotion-based attention shift in autonomous agents

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Intelligent Agents III Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL 1996)

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We present three mechanisms of attention shift for autonomous agents within the framework of the SALT model of memory [5]: activationbased attention shift, attention shift by event-driven emotion and attention shift by anticipation-driven emotion. The three mechanisms rely on automatically computed properties of memory (as opposed to deliberative processes).

Activation-based attention shift is based on the activation of cognitive structures stored in long term memory. The other two are two-step emotionbased mechanisms of attention shift: first emotion interrupts the agent's current cognitive process (as in activation-based attention shift), then the processing of the emotion directs the agent's attention to the external environment. In attention shift by event-driven emotion, the ongoing cognitive process may be interrupted when an external event causes the agent to experience an emotion. In the attention shift by anticipation-driven emotion, the ongoing cognitive process may be interrupted when the agent anticipates affective states attributed to the external environment.

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  1. Department of Computer Science of ISCTE, Av. das Forças Armadas, Edifício ISCTE, 1600, Lisbon, Portugal

    Luis Miguel Botelho

  2. Department of Computing Science, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Campo Grande Bloco 5 Piso 1, 1700, Lisbon, Portugal

    Helder Coelho

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Botelho, L.M., Coelho, H. (1997). Emotion-based attention shift in autonomous agents. In: Müller, J.P., Wooldridge, M.J., Jennings, N.R. (eds) Intelligent Agents III Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages. ATAL 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1193. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0013592

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